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San Francisco Workers Dig Up a Relic of the 1939 World's Fair
“It’s amazing what they did in the past.”
It’s fascinating what you can find just by digging holes in the Bay Area—the hulks of buried ships, 240 vertical feet of garbage, and now a painstakingly crafted relic of the 1939 World's Fair.
Workers with the San Francisco Public Works department were inspecting a sinkhole on Treasure Island when they made the discovery. It was a large pipe, at first inspection normal, that turned out to be made from slats of redwood trees. The pipe ran for about 70 feet and, incredibly, the majority of it still worked.